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13 comments for “Mind Pollution for Reading Rebels”

Heather Has Two Mommies is less challenged than Daddy’s Roomate and I have read both. Heather Has Two Mommies talks more specifically about invitro fertilization and body parts etc. which is why I would have thought more parents would have had a hayday with it. I know they did, but it is strange that one is more censored than the other. You would think they would go hand in hand.

I bought “What’s Happening to my Body?” (#40) for my nieces when they hit their preteen years. I gave them to my sisters so they could give them to their daughters when they thought the girls would be ready. It’s a great, detailed book with good illustrations that handles everything embarassing about the teen years quite factually and matter-of-factly.

piny

September 28, 2005 at 4:59 pm

Scary Stories is why I’m an aspiring artist. The illustrations in those books are perfect.

For people like Lauren, I suggest they reverse the meme and only post the books they haven’t read, maybe with hypotheses about why those books are so evil; why they should not only be banned but burned, etc.

It’s amazing how many of them have women’s sexuality as themes–especially young women’s sexuality. Just goes to show you that we are much more hung up on sex (as it pertains to young women); than violence.

Is it too late to de-lurk? I’ve been reading for awhile so I thought I would pop on and say hi.
Anyway, I’ve read 19 of them. I’m also a voracious reader so I was a little disappointed in myself, but I have now made it my goal to read as many as possible in the coming weeks.

Lo

September 28, 2005 at 8:54 pm

Supposedly, one of the pictures in “Where’s Waldo,” a beach scene, includes a miniscule exposed breast which is less than a milimeter long and renders the entire book the tool of satan.

I’ve read 59 and i’m feeling fine! As the child of an educator, and a student/teacher, avid reader, and everyone’s favorite aunt … the list is an excellent example of a diverse collection of literature (both popular and common) that has achieved a certain (deserved or not) quality of ‘timelessness’ due to the nature of the material’s HONESTY: The honesty of the characters; their voices, situations, and perspectives on life (historical, adolescent transitions, fears, adventures, values, racism, sexism, classism, humanitarian-ism (?, is that an ism?), and ‘first person’ honest exploration into known (S.King-Cujo, M.Bloom-Everything) and creepy unknown (R.Wright-Native Son, M.Attwood-Handmaiden, The Outsiders, T.Morrison, M.Angelou, A.Walker-Everything, and Where Did I series) aspects of LIFE. I guess living a ‘reality-based’ life is ‘challenging’ for some.

Note: The ONLY reason Dr. Seuss and more of S. Silverstein are not on the list is because your children have been ‘dumbed down’ and those authors are no longer a threat. Leave No Child Behind (the wall of critical thinking)

PrincessTamTam

September 28, 2005 at 10:44 pm

My final observation:

The only thing EVERY book has in common is that is Orwell’s world, the warning label read: